David, Goliath, and reverend Bayes: Prior beliefs about defendants' status in personal injury cases

Arts & Humanities

• Bayes' Theorem 80%
• Juries 62%
• Liability 60%
• Propensity 59%
• Sympathy 52%
• Sentiment 50%
• Harm 49%
• Damage 47%
• Accountability 47%
• Wealth 41%
• Experiment 33%
• Causes 31%
• Decision Making 31%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Bayes Theorem 100%
• Social Responsibility 96%
• Wounds and Injuries 79%
• Guidelines 52%

Social Sciences

• punitive damages 78%
• sympathy 56%
• liability 49%
• experiment 32%
• cause 32%
• responsibility 29%
• evidence 22%